Links to essays, articles and reviews online. Much of this writing is about performance.
2024
Essay, Art Collector, on the work of photo media artist Emil Cañita for this magazine’s special issue on Sydney Contemporary. Grab a hard copy somewhere – it isn’t online and it’s pretty sexy.
Article, The Monthly, On the picket outside Anthony Albanese’s office in support of Palestine
Review, The Saturday Paper, Nicholas Mangan’s ‘A World Undone’ at the MCA, Sydney
Review, The Saturday Paper, opening night party Lights On, of Ten thousand suns, the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
2023
Short story, Griffith Review 83:Past Perfect, ‘The green gold grassy hills’
Catalogue essay, Just add water for Alana Hunt’s exhibition ‘Surveilling a Crime Scene’ – Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin NT.
Artist Profile, The Sydney Morning Herald On Yuki Kihara’s ‘Paradise Camp’ at the Powerhouse
Review, The Saturday Paper On Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘Hubris and Humiliation’
Review, Art Monthly On Karla Dickens’ ‘Embracing Shadows’ at Campbelltown Arts Centre
Artist Profile, The Sydney Morning Herald On Paul Yore’s ‘Word Made Flesh’ at Carriageworks
2022
Extract in Poslink from my 2012 essay Looking for Lanny K, which can be read in full in my collection Buried not dead
Essay, Australian Chamber Orchestra The Crowd and I
Review, The Saturday Paper The Milk of Dreams: review of Venice Biennale
Article, The Saturday Paper Biblioteka Azyl, an LGBTIQ+ library in Lublin, Poland
2021
Essay, Carriageworks Journal Kuba Dorabialski’s ‘Invocation Trilogy’
The final essay in my tenure as writer-in-residence for Carriageworks, from July to December 2021
Essay, Carriageworks Journal Cherine Fahd’s ‘Ecdysis’
Review, Carriageworks Journal Liveworks, 2021
Essay, Carriageworks Journal Dennis Golding’s ‘The Future is Here’
Essay, Carriageworks Journal Sarah Rodigari’s ‘On Time’
Artist profile, The Saturday Paper Emma Maye Gibson
Essay, Sydney Review of Books On writing under Lockdown
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOOLLAHRA DIGITAL LITERARY AWARD***
Micro essays, Carriageworks Journal Dancefloor Eulogies
Artist profile, The Saturday Paper Performance artist Rakini Devi
Review, The Saturday Paper No Show at Carriageworks
Essay, Meanjin On dancing, performance and parties
2020
Article, The Monthly – Rebuilding after the bushfires
2019
Review, Running Dog Mike Parr’s The Eternal Opening/Towards an Amazonian Black Square
Review, Running Dog Day for Night, Liveworks, Performance Space
Article, The Monthly Strip Searching by NSW Police
Review, Sydney Review of Books World War Noir and The Afterlife of Evidence
Review, Running Dog Naughty Noodle Fun Haus, Central Coast
Essay, Sydney Review of Books On Kathleen Mary Fallon’s Working Hot
***WINNER OF THE WOOLLAHRA DIGITAL LITERARY AWARD***
Review, Audrey Journal РLe G̢teau Chocolat at Sydney Festival
Review, Audrey Journal – Sydney Festival’s Feature Cabaret ‘Pigalle’
2018
Review, The Monthly – STC’s adaptation of Ruth Park’s ‘The Harp in the South’
Review, Runway – Mike Parr’s ‘Underneath the Bitumen the Artist’
Review, Running Dog – Ghenoa Gela’s ‘My Urrwai’
Review, Running Dog – Katharina Grosse’s ‘The horse trotted … ‘
Review, Overland – The Wooster Group’s The Town Hall Affair
2017
Review, The Monthly – Yovich and Valentine’s Barbara and the Camp Dogs at Belvoir
Essay, Sydney Review of Books – On Surry Hills, for SRB’s series of essays on place
Review, The Monthly – Liveworks round-up including Justin Shoulder, Eisa Jocson and Jen Jamieson
Review, The Monthly – Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s The Second Woman for Liveworks
Review, The Monthly – Agathe Gothe-Snape’s Rhetorical Chorus for Liveworks
Polemic, Overland – A letter to the Prime Minister about the postal vote on same sex marriage
Review, The Monthly – Taylor Mac’s HIR starring Kurt Pimblett
Review, The Monthly – Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Bennelong at Sydney Opera House
Review, The Monthly – Patricia Cornelius’s SHIT at the Seymour Centre
Review, Overland – DC Extended Universe’s Wonder Woman
2016
Essay, Black Inc – ‘The Experience Machine’ – a discursive essay on Marina Abramovic in Australia
Review, Overland – Mike Parr’s On Manus Island at Campbelltown Arts Centre
Review, The Monthly – Mike Parr’s Foreign Looking at the National Gallery
Profile, The Saturday Paper – Mike Parr
Portrait, The Saturday Paper – Murray Bell
Portrait, The Saturday Paper – Vittorio Bianchi
Review, RealTime – ‘Disaffected at Blacktown Arts Centre
Article, Overland – on police activity at the entrance to Sydney’s Mardi Gras party
2015
Review, Artlink – Liveworks, Performance Space, overview
Review, RealTime – Liveworks, Performance Space
Review, RealTime – Liveworks: Latai Taumoepeau’s Repatriate I & II
Biography, Dictionary of Sydney – Iris Webber
Review, The Monthly – on Marina Abramovic in Australia
Review, RealTime – 48 Hr Incident, Gallery 4A
Portrait, The Saturday Paper – Ralph Dixon
Portrait, The Saturday Paper – Vashti Hughes
Review, RealTime – Day For Night, Performance Space
Portrait, The Saturday Paper – Teresa Avila
Portrait, The Saturday Paper – Bev Nichols
2014
Essay, Sturgeon Magazine – on artist Greg Semu
Review, RealTime – Yowza Yowza Yowza, Wollongong University
Review, RealTime – Day for Night, Performance Space
2012
Essay, The Wheeler Centre – on writer Peter doyle
2011
Article, The Monthly – on Cockatoo Island
Article, The Age – on body art
Review, RealTime – Liveworks, Performance Space
2010
Review, RealTime – BUMP Projects, Hordern Pavilion
Review, RealTime – Ms&Mr and Samuel James, Artspace
2009
Review, RealTime – Quick & Dirty II, Performance Space
2007
Review, RealTime – U Little Stripper! Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discoteque
Essay, Overland – from Strange Museums
2006
Review, RealTime – Interakcje, Action Art Festival, Poland